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Colbert says he's 'ridiculous' compared to sister

Ah, little brothers: They can be annoying, embarrassing or like Stephen Colbert, promoting his big sister's candidacy for Congress on late-night TV. Colbert told Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday that his sister,

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Ah, little brothers: They can be annoying, embarrassing or like Stephen Colbert, promoting his big sister's candidacy for Congress on late-night TV.

Colbert told Jimmy Fallon on Thursday that his sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, has something to offer the people who live in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District — compared to someone like himself who mocks politics on his Comedy Central show.

"I don't actually have anything to offer people in a public office," Colbert said. "It's natural for her to run because she has skills and something to offer society. I am professionally ridiculous. I just hope what I do for a living doesn't sully her good character."

Colbert on Friday will host a fundraiser in New York City for his sister, who is on leave from her job at Clemson University. Then they'll head to their hometown of Charleston, for a fundraising event Saturday in a bowling alley.

Why that locale? "We're of the people," Colbert says. "You've got to go to a bowling alley because that's where the people are."

Colbert Busch is one of two Democrats running in a March 19 primary, but her brother has already declared she will be the winner of the nomination. Sixteen Republicans, including former governor Mark Sanford, are vying for the GOP nomination on the same day.